ARSON ADMITTED.
TAILOR SENTENCED. (PR23S ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, September 14. Charles Vernon, aged fifty-five, a, tailor, who admitted setting fire to a block of flats owned by him, was sentenced by Mr, Justice Herdman to-day to five years' reformative detention. "People appear to be under the belief that it is not a serious matter to defraud an insurance company," said the Judge, "I have 310 doubt the crime of arson i 3 frequently committed, and in nine cases out of ten the offender escapes. In this case if the fire had taken a proper hold possibly lives would have been lost. The excuse that the prisoner was in financial difficulties wa,« no excuse."-
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20342, 15 September 1931, Page 3
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